At 06:41 PM 2/22/99 +1100, Tim wrote:
>If these would-be
>extropian-transhumanists favour government subsidies for university
>professors like myself, they are really either:
>
>1. Making the redundant claim that they themselves favour spending their
>own money on research.
>
>or else
>
>2. Making the non redundant but also non-extropian claim that they favour
>spending other people's money on research.
>
>
>Position 2 is not compatible with self-direction.
Damien Broderick